On Thursday the European Parliament voted on proposed copyright reforms which would have had huge ramifications if enacted.

The proposed rules would have put more responsibility on websites to check whether user uploaded content breached copyright.

One way they could have done this was to install upload filters that automatically checked if content was copyrighted.

This would have had a big impact on those that use illegal Kodi add-ons.

Kodi is perfectly legal, but some third-party add-ons are illegal (Image: KODI)

These third party apps find and pull together pirated streams of movies and TV shows posted on the internet.

These pirated films that are ready for streaming would have been uploaded to some form of file or video sharing website.

The proposed European copyright law would hugely impact such sites, forcing them to check for any content that is pirated.

However, on Thursday MEPs in Brussels rejected the proposed copyright reforms meaning it’s now going back to the drawing board.

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